Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People will never be happy so long as their greed exceeds their needs and they don't comprehend the meaning of the word enough. Hart Sprager Portland, Oregon...
...world populated by robots, in which a young bot named Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) small-town life with his poor parents (Dianne West and Stanley Tucci) leaves him unsatisfied. He travels to the prototypical big city but is overwhelmed by the bustle of city life and corporate greed. Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) and his conniving, demonic mother (Jim Broadbent) look to suck every penny out of the outmoded robots...
There was once a time when the Olympics meant something. A time before the Games were befouled by the egos of professional athletes and the greed of corporate sponsors. A time before steroids, BALCO, “the clear,” and widespread accusations of rampant cheating. A time when amateurs competed for nothing more than their personal pride and national honor...
...young bot named Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) is dissatisfied by small-town life with his poor parents (Dianne West and Stanley Tucci). He travels to the prototypical big city to meet the heroic inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks) but is overwhelmed by the bustle of city life and corporate greed. Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) and his conniving, demonic mother (Jim Broadbent) have taken over Bigweld’s plant and, instead of serving the robot public, look to suck every penny out of them with expensive upgrades...
...fact, the film even takes a stab at Orwellian allegory to appeal to mature viewers, presenting scrap metal plants resembling hell, eugenic overtones of destroying the “rusty” robots, and depictions of corporate greed. However, there’s nothing morally provocative or intellectual about the film; it’s just uninteresting to adults and frightening to children. And once one of those emotionally unstable midgets start crying, they...